#22 - Dr Bruce Baird from the Productive Dentist Academy

Do Good While Doing Good
Dr Bruce Baird

Years ago, I can clearly remember hearing an American Dentist on Howard Farran’s Podcast ‘Dentistry Uncensored‘ talking about productivity. He was producing around $3000 per hour – $20-30,000 per day and I honestly thought it was mad. How could this be possible?

This episode, we have the pleasure of chatting with that man! Dr Bruce Baird, in partnership with Victoria Peterson, are the founders of The Productive Dentist Academy. They specialise in improving your productivity and in this chat, we find out a little about how they do this and the journey Bruce took to get there.

If you like what you’re hearing, check out their podcasts. Dr Bruce Baird hosts The Productive Dentist Podcast and Victoria Peterson, in combination with Dr Chad Johnson host Everyday Practices. Plenty more content to help you be productive.

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In this chat we cover:

What is important to be a productive dentist?
His issues with communicating with the engineer type of person
The importance of and type of education Bruce chose early on and why
Early years in the army
Being a boss and the importance of team and support staff
Mentors that helped him through and the man he still remembers from dental school
What increasing his productivity did to his day to day private practice
How Bruce approaches scheduling to help
Mistakes Bruce made early on
Advice to young dentists
The importance of communication and how it helps your life and career

Links from the episode:

The Productive Dentist Academy
The Productive Dentist workshop, Melbourne 2020
Dr Carl Misch – Implant mentor
Dr Peter Dawson – Prosthodontics and Full Mouth Rehab
Dr Lindsey D. Pankey – Prosthodontics and Full Mouth Rehab
Dr John Kois – Prosthodontics and Full Mouth Rehab

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